Healthcare related activities are becoming more and more important as society ages, medical treatment becomes more advanced and globalization accelerates. The Mitsubishi Chemical Group is developing health care business in a wide range of areas including diagnostics, clinical testing services, and technologies for drug discovery, while continuing the basic research it has conducted in life sciences over the past several decades. Entering the post-genome era, the Mitsubishi Chemical Group plans to devote efforts to the Health Care Domain as one of its most important businesses, and to contribute to further raising the quality of life of people everywhere.